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As sensor network deployments begin to grow there emerges an increasing need to overcome the obstacles of connecting and sharing heterogeneous sensor resources. Common data operations and transformations exist in deployment scenarios which can be encapsulated into a layer of software services that hide the complexity of the underlying infrastructure from the application developer.

The NICTA Open SensorWeb Architecture (NOSA) project has developed a standards compliant platform and middleware for integration of sensor networks with emerging distributed computing platforms.

NOSA is a built upon the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standard defined by the Open GIS Consortium (OGC), which is composed of a set of specifications, including SensorML, Observation & Measurement, Sensor Collection Service, and Web Notification Service. It presents a reusable, scalable, extensible, and interoperable service oriented Sensor Web architecture that (i) conforms to the SWE standard; (ii) integrates Sensor Web with Grid Computing and (iii) provides middleware support for Sensor Webs.

The NOSA project also conducted research into distributed algorithms for sensor network applications, such as spatial query processing, distributed anomaly detection, and detecting misbehaviour by sensor nodes.

The NOSA project completed in March 2008.

NOSA Software Release

SensorWeb Core 2.0 (June 2008)
The code is released under GPL license. However, all libraries are released under LGPL (Version 3) so that you can use our SensorWeb code without the need of releasing source code of your applications.

SensorWeb 2.0 Documents: (1) Release Notes, (2) Cookbook, (3) Installation Guide

Please note that further development of the SensorWeb software has been undertaken by the GRIDS Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, and their recent software releases are available at their website.

NOSA Project Publications

T. Kobialka, R. Buyya, C. Leckie, and R. Kotagiri. “A SensorWeb Middleware with Stateful Services for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks”. In  Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2007, IEEE Press, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA), Dec. 3-6, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.

X. Chu, R. Buyya. "Service Oriented Sensor Web". In Sensor Network and Configuration:
Fundamentals, Standards, Platforms, and Applications, N. P. Mahalik (ed),
pp.51-74, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-540-37364-3, Germany, Jan. 2007.

D. Dallas, C. Leckie and R. Kotagiri. “Hop-Count Monitoring: Detecting Sinkhole Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks.” In the Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON2007), Adelaide, Australia, 19-21 November 2007, pp. 176-181.

C. Loo, M. Ng, C. Leckie, M. Palaniswami. "Intrusion Detection for Routing Attacks
in Sensor Networks". In International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks,
vol. 2, no. 4, October-December 2006, pp. 313-332, ISSN  1550-1329.

H. Xie, E. Tanin, L. Kulik. "Distributed Histograms for Processing Aggregate Data
from Moving Objects". In Proceedings of 8th International Conference on
Mobile Data Management - MDM, 7-11 May 2007, Mannheim, Germany.

J. Huang, A. Pearce. "Collaborative inductive logic programming for path planning".
In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-07), volume 1, Hyderabad, India, pp. 1327-1332, 2007.

X. Chu, T. Kobialka, B. Durnota, and R. Buyya. "Open Sensor Web Architecture:
Core Services". In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent
Sensing and Information Processing (ICISIP 2006, IEEE Press, Piscataway,
New Jersey, USA, ISBN 1-4244-0611-0) pp. 98-103, Dec. 15-18, 2006, Bangalore, India.

J. Huang, A. Pearce. "Toward Inductive Logic Programming for
Collaborative Problem Solving". In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM
International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06), IEEE
Computer Society, 2006, pp. 284-290.

J. Chan J. Bailey, C. Leckie. "Discovering and Summarising Regions of
Correlated Spatio-Temporal Change in Evolving Graphs". In Proceedings of the
1st International Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data Mining (SSTDM).
Held in conjunction with ICDM 2006, December 2006, Hong Kong, pages 361-365.

P. Hebden, A. Pearce. "Data-Centric Routing using Bloom Filters in
Wireless Sensor Networks". In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference
on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing (ICISIP),
December 2006, Bangalore, India, p. 72-78.

P. Hebden, A. Pearce. "Distributed Asynchronous Clustering for Self-Organisation
of Wireless Sensor Networks". In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on
Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing (ICISIP), December 2006, Bangalore,
India, pp. 37-42.

W. Sharif, C. Leckie. "New Variants of Wormhole Attacks for Sensor Networks".
In Proceedings of the Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference,
December 2006, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 26-30.

M. Umer, L. Kulik, E. Tanin. "A Location Based Aggregation Algorithm for
Selective Aggregate Queries in Sensor Networks". In Proceedings of the
2nd International Conference on Geosensor Networks (GSN'06), Boston, USA, October 2006.

J. Huang, A. Pearce. "Distributed Interactive Learning in Multi-Agent Systems".
In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2006,
AAAI Press. Boston, Massachusetts, July 2006, pp. 666-671.

P. Hebden, A. Pearce. "Bloom filters for data aggregation and discovery: a hierarchical
clustering approach". In Proceedings of Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and
Information Processing Conference (ISSNIP), IEEE Computer Society Press,
Melbourne, Australia, December 2005, pp 175—180.


For more information, please contact the project leader A/Prof Chris Leckie